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CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

Navigation Center Update

Margaret King City Coordinator’s Office May 22, 2019

Nav Center Operations Sam Strong Red Lake Secretary Steve Horsfield Simpson Exec. Director Project Operations Margaret King Project Manager City Coordinator’s Office Shelter Operations Simpson Housing Meals Catholic Charities Housing and Health Services Coordination Adam Fairbanks Red Lake Native Navigators AICDC MIWRC Avivo Community-based Service Organizations Mpls Health Dept. and Hennepin County and Homeless Access Livio Health Sage Prairie Spiritual and Cultural Services AICDC Red Lake Data Tracking Simpson Housing City of Minneapolis Facilities Chuck Lutz CPED Public Safety MPD/MFD/EMS Property Management Project for Pride in Living Better Futures – custodial EPG - security Convening Lead Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde City Coordinator External Communications City Communications Department Simpson Red Lake Margaret King

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Navigation Center

• Opportunities
• Co-location of shelter and services

beneficial to guests, effective with historically disenfranchised individuals

• Efficiencies for providers and

emergency responders

• Challenges
• Operational structure – no lead

agency complicates communication and decision- making

• Right-sizing intensive low

barrier program

• Safety and harm reduction

Census: Reduction over time: ~52 % positive exits (to date)

200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 1-Jan 8-Jan 15-Jan 22-Jan 29-Jan 5-Feb 12-Feb 19-Feb 26-Feb 5-Mar 12-Mar 19-Mar 26-Mar 22 May

Stabilization overtime

160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 January F ebruary March C enus Overdose PoliceInteraction EMS PatientContacts Narcan by Simpson

Census and exits

176 guests at peak (January 2019)

• 130 exits to date:

Positive Exits= 68

• 58

housing (Avivo and various other, including moving in with family)

• 2

mental health commitment (involuntary treatment)

• 3

nursing home

• 5

inpatient treatment Negative exits= 62

• 8

jail

• 10

unknown (disappeared)

• 7

shelter (most still working on housing but it is slow going)

• 20

asked to leave, destination unknown

• 2

died

• 14

exited in May for not engaging with services

• 1
• ther (beyond scope medically)

Current census: 46

Status (as of May 22, 2019)

• 10 have firm housing or treatment admission dates for prior to

June 3

• 28 actively working on housing and will transition to alternate

shelter for interim

• 8 will likely exit prior to closure and are not accepting services

being offered

• Exits for non-participation: Beginning in May, Simpson began exiting

guests who were not actively working to come up with a housing

• plan. In all cases alternate shelter was offered; roughly 10 accepted
• ther shelter, and the others presumably returned to unsheltered

homelessness.

Housing outcome rate in context

Rate of housing placement out of the Navigation Center is significantly higher than other traditional shelters. Why?

• Majority of placements are through Avivo/Red Lake partnership with

Housing Support state benefit- easily scalable, uncapped resource

• Benefit doesn’t begin until housing begins- making work with

individuals while still homeless difficult for agencies to finance

• For Navigation Center, philanthropy and state contributed $243,000

seed funds to enable Avivo to expand team by six case managers, to house additional 90 people

• Housing longevity in these placements too early to assess

Closure date: June 3

Status on closing day:

• Projected to be 20-30 guests remaining, all of whom have housing (or treatment)

referrals, but whose units are not yet ready for them to move in.

• They have all accepted temporary alternate shelter until they can move into their
• housing. These waits will range from a few days to a several weeks.
• Community outreach, shelter, and housing agencies will remain connected to this

group after Navigation Center closes to help ensure placements occur as planned.

• Avivo housing program will continue to enroll guests and former guests on their

housing wait list.

Questions?

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